The Bombshell Effect by Karla Sorensen

Author:Karla Sorensen [Sorensen, Karla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dutch Girl Publishing, LLC
Published: 2018-06-13T16:00:00+00:00

15

Luke

I’d never experienced silence like the one that filled that tiny elevator. Allie was within arm’s reach, sweat making her chest shine under the harsh lights.

I wanted to lick it off.

My eyes pinched shut as the numbers dinged with each floor we passed. It was almost as if something had been suspended between us since the photo shoot, set into place when I laid my hands on her on my back porch. I didn’t know what it looked like, this thing hanging in the air.

But, slowly, inexorably, it tugged me in her direction, making the space between us smaller and smaller even if I hadn’t moved yet. Something inside me felt horribly off-balance, except for moments like this, when it didn’t feel horrible at all.

It felt right.

Her mouth opened as if she was going to speak when her phone went off. The disappointment I felt was sticky and uncomfortable, and I wanted to wash it off me.

With a deep breath, she read something on her phone and gave me an inscrutable look.

“What is it?”

The elevator stopped.

On our floor.

With one hand, I held the doors open for her, but she didn’t move.

“Sports Illustrated just emailed me a preview of the issue, in case I wanted to see the pictures before it hits newsstands.”

I nodded slowly, pushing against the doors when they tried to close. “Okay. Are they good?”

Of course, they’d be good. I had eyes. They could’ve done the shoot with her looking exactly like she was right now. Scrubbed free of makeup, hair piled on top of her head, and sweat making her shine, she’d be fantasy fodder for every man with working eyes.

She certainly was for me.

“I can’t get them to load.” Her cell phone went dark in her hand. “Crappy signal in the elevator. I’ll just use my laptop.” She swallowed audibly and lifted her eyes to mine. “In my room.”

The door tried to close, and I slammed my hand harder than necessary. She licked her lips and watched my face carefully as she walked out, her shoulder almost brushing my chest on her way out. I blew a long breath from my lips. That thing, the cord, the binding agent, the chemical pull between us tugged me further.

Off the elevator, there were two directions she could have gone. Given I had no clue where her room was, I watched carefully as she paused next to an ornate side table and gold-framed mirror.

“Do you want to see them?” she asked, her eyes glowing wide in her face.

Remember when I said I felt off-balance?

That was a gross understatement.

With those words, the intent behind them, the hallway empty and hushed behind her, and tension vibrating between us like someone had struck a tuning fork with a sledgehammer, I knew that I was tiptoeing along a cliff’s edge.

No harness. No safety net. If I slipped off the razor-thin line, we’d both tumble over into the unknown. But on Allie’s face, given what she must be seeing on mine, she knew it as well as I did.

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